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Bitso, Mexico's first Bitcoin exchange, has closed a seed funding round led by Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, an investment vehicle backed by a prominent Bitcoin investor Barry Silbert. The capital also comes from a few undisclosed angel investors.

In a keynote address at the Global Technology Law Conference, Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), referred to bitcoin and blockchain as a big trend with a great impact on finance.

There are many bitcoin wallets on the market now and it can be hard to choose the best one for you. We hope that our quick test will help you make the right choice. In this article, we look at three mobile wallets: Blockchain, Coinbase, and Mycelium.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is implementing a Proof-of-Concept with Ripple technology for automated bank transfers. The bank plans to invest £3.5 million in its broad-scale two years transformation plan focusing primarily on the IT system resilience.

An article by Filip Martinka, analyzing the behaviour of bitcoin enthusiasts, comes to the conclusion that many of them can only be accurately described as zealots and fanatics. Curiously, bitcoin adversaries do not seem any more logical.

Quoine launched Quoine Pay platform to enable integrating bitcoin by more than 20,000 retailers in E-Context payment network. It is claimed that the service allows merchants to avoid being affected by the volatility.

BitLicense, long-awaited by some and dreaded by others, has been finally launched. Bitcoin companies that provide services to New Yorkers, have now only forty four days to become compliant and to apply for a BitLicense.

During the first quarter of 2015, the giant retailer’s “losses on cryptocurrency investment” were $117,000, suggests the quarterly earnings report. However, it does not dissuade Overstock from dealing with bitcoin.